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Roll of Honour 1939-45 Grammar School

Reference

G9.02

Place

GOSFORTH

Map ref

NZ 242688

Original Location

Gosforth Grammar School, Knightsbridge. (Former Middle School and High School)

Present Location

Gosforth Academy in the main hall

Which war

1939-45

Memorial Description

Plaque 93cm high x 65cm wide, mounted on a wood pattress which extends 5cm on all sides. There is a single line border in white. The dates are on either side of the school crest at the top, below the words "Roll of Honour". The names are listed in two columns divided by a single white vertical line. All lettering is painted in white, with the dedication in Roman capitals and the names in sans serif capitals.

Materials used

Metal on wood base.

Inscription

Roll of honour
1939 - 1945
In memory of those
who gave their lives
in the
Second World War

Names

36 full names.
See transcript.

Sculptor, Artist or Designer

E.H. Thew Ltd., Dean Street, Newcastle.

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Photos: J. Brown; P. Thirkell; John Hall

Research acknowledgements

P. Thirkell; Gosforth Local History Society; J. Brown; John Hall Gosforth Academy; Dorothy Procter

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Roll of Honour 1939-45 Grammar School (G9.02)

GOSFORTH, Grammar School.

   Roll of Honour

   1939 (School badge) 1945

   In memory of those

   who gave their lives

   in the

   Second World War

   ------------------

   Urwin Agan                  Bruce Hamilton Hindmarsh

   Robert Allan                Joseph Asquith Hodgson

   Herbert Philipson Atkinson  James Lapping

   George Bell                 John Elliot Luke

   George Milburn Bigglestone  James Mason

   Thomas Owen Bolton          Peter Alan McDonald

   Stanley Bright              Roderick McGregor

   Bryan Charlton              John Thirlwall McKeown

   William Collingwood         Jack Ord

   Lester George Coutts        John Leonard Pearson

   Lewis Ogilvie Douglass      James Adamson Pollock

   Thomas Woodman Elliott      Jean Scott

   Frederick Charles Garrod    Russell Smith

   Henry Gill                  James Claughan Trobe

   Wilfred Hall                George Moffat Urwin

   John George Henderson       Brian Wardle

   George Markham Heppinstall  Ronald Waugh

                 Frederick John Young

                 Thomas Bell

NamesG9.02

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